2022年-有答案-浙江省杭州地区(含周边)重点中学高三(上)期中英语试卷.pdfVIP

2022学年浙江省杭州地区（含周边）重点中学高三（上）期中 英语试卷 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分25.0分）第一节：（共10个小题：每小题2.5分， 满分25.0分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选 项。 1. In 1985, a little Italian plumber （水管工）became the face of video games,and changed the way we play them. Super Mario Bros saw the main characters in the game, Mario and Luigi, jump around the Mushroom Kingdom, collect coins and rush to save a princess from a bad turtle. The content was different from the simple gameplay of Snake or Pac-Man,where the aim was to eat and stay alive. Mario originated as a carpenter in the 1981 game Donkey Kong, which was advanced for its time,with retro （复旧的）sound effects as Mario moved on challenging platforms. At the time,video games were usually created by computer engineers,as opposed to todays artists, said Shigeru Miyamoto,game designer and producer of the Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong. As to why he picked a 26-year-old Italian-American plumber from New York as the main character,Miyamoto said,We wanted him to be someone who might live near you, and not a superhero. The games popularity really took off in 1985 when Super Mario Bros was released.People had never seen a game like Super Mario Bros. said Frank Cifaldi,co- director of the Video Game History Foundation,Super Mario Bros,despite having the same limitations as its peers （同辈）, manages to convey a hard and long adventure in a large world. Super Mario Bros changed the way we play video games-from merely aiming for a high score to playing a game to experience an adventure and see it through to its ending,he said. For all the critics that may say video games are full of violence and killings, the moustached Mario remains the most globally identifiable face of the video game industry, added Miyamoto. （1）Why did Miyamoto pick a plumber as the main character ？________ A.He regarded plumbers as superheroes. B.He found it challenging to design a superhero. C.